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How Fox this morning frames Russia’s latest missile attacks against civilians: “Both sides now accusing each other of violating the 30-day cease fire agreement.”

submitted 5 hours ago • 450 comments

RFK Jr's always going on about "healthy" and what he means is a mixture of nihilism and eugenics, that public health and medicine are pointless because "unhealthy" people are going to (and deserve to) die anyway. Never mind the kid's death was easily preventable. Call them "unhealthy" and move on.

submitted 4 hours ago • 36 comments

Trump is waging war against professionals, intellectuals, scientists, education, writes Franklin Foer. We've seen this movie before - in Mao's China www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 3 hours ago • 58 comments

Russians celebrate Palm Sunday by bombing Sumy www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

submitted 3 hours ago • 61 comments

Tech execs declaring all-out war on creators who don’t want their life’s work pillaged for profit

submitted 1 day ago • 217 comments

L - The official photo from the Kremlin of US Special Envoy @SteveWitkoff putting his hand over his heart as he greets his friend Vladimir Putin again this week. R - Putin’s latest missile attack killing at least 21 people, including 7 children, on Palm Sunday. Putin’s stooge.

submitted 6 hours ago • 855 comments

Whitmer is a quisling in the purest sense of the word. In 1941, Churchill described a quisling as one who "is hired to fawn upon the conqueror, to collaborate in his designs and to enforce his rule upon their fellow countrymen while groveling low themselves."

submitted 18 hours ago • 6 comments

The Trump regime is claiming tyrannical powers. Not an exaggeration, not hyperbole, not a partisan statement. The reality we now face.

submitted 13 hours ago • 21 comments

Sic semper tyrannis

submitted 12 hours ago • 5 comments

Trump surrenders again.

submitted 1 day ago • 872 comments

This is a big one - Amazon also responsible for Kindle content AFAIK, and susceptible to pressure from Trump admin as AWS is a major part of their revenues. It's open fascism.

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

Elon Musk cutting that waste, fraud and abuse!

submitted 1 day ago • 135 comments

Unearthed video: Trump nominee Ed Martin praises Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, a neo-Nazi white supremacist and convicted January 6 felon: “Extraordinary man”

submitted 1 day ago • 65 comments

To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if he is genuinely unaware of the fact that Russia doesn't fully control the "annexed regions". It's not Witkoff's fault, though, all his briefs are in Russian, and that is a hard language to master

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

So much winning.

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3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development

submitted 1 day ago • 872 comments

He said this in January, then in February, then again in March, now in April. Our weak president who promised to end this in 24 hours has no plan and Putin is just laughing at him. Empty, hollow threats and promises is Trump’s whole game.

submitted 2 days ago • 421 comments

"A Wall Street Journal analysis of daily financial statements issued by the Treasury Department found government spending since the [Trump] inauguration is $154 billion more than in the same period in 2024 during the administration of former President Joe Biden."

submitted 2 days ago • 51 comments

I've said many times they would legalize slavery if they thought they could get away with it. And here we are.

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

No one needs information about the weather, right? Not farmers. Not city planners. Not disaster responders. All just useless, eh?

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

Elon Musk can't be trusted with rockets, drugs, video games, social media, or even his own children. He damn sure can't be trusted with your data.

submitted 2 days ago • 148 comments

Today marks one month since Russia refused to accept the full 30-day ceasefire proposed by the U.S. and Ukraine. During this time, Russia has attacked Ukraine with nearly 70 missiles of various types, over 2,200 Shahed drones, and over 6,000 guided bombs.

submitted 2 days ago • 40 comments

Federal spending is up under Trump according to the Wall Street Journal. Chaos is not actually the same as cost savings. Actual budgeting is a kind of actual policy-making and takes real work spread over real time. Running around breaking stuff isn't that. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 2 days ago • 136 comments

This is a 12 alarm fire for the economy. If being friends with the president and giving him kickbacks makes you exempt from large import taxes Vs your competitors, it will stratify the whole economy and push corruption and loyalty and political controls deep into the private sector

submitted 3 days ago • 98 comments

NEW: China increases tariffs on US imports from 84% to 125%. The dollar is slumping. US bond yields are rising, threatening a debt crisis. Stock market is set for worst week since global financial crash. Trump is in a war he should never have started. And he doesn’t have the cards.

submitted 2 days ago • 85 comments

So now all the “fiscal conservatives” in Congress who complained for the last 4 years that the Biden/Pelosi budget deficits were “mortgaging our kids’ futures” are on a path to pass a budget that will explode the deficit exponentially to far more than any of the Biden years.

submitted 2 days ago • 233 comments

The GOP Congress continues to fail its duties, but Trump might have awoken a leviathan. Trump's most concrete economic goal was to lower the 10-year Treasury yield, and instead he sent it up. It went up again today despite what should've been a reassuring CPI report. Bond markets don't trust him.

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

He has learned that it is very easy to do insider trading from the White House and nobody is going to stop him.

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

Probably another thing the geniuses currently running our government didn’t anticipate. The only question remaining is what excuse Trump will give for his next capitulation while declaring victory. We are so screwed with these morons.

submitted 2 days ago • 157 comments

All the MAGA moronic hot takes yesterday were about how Trump supposedly outmaneuvered Xi and China would be forced to surrender to the Orange Dipshit. They are far better prepared for a trade war than these incompetents in the WH, and are showing that now.

submitted 2 days ago • 136 comments

Hannah Arendt summed up Trump-style authoritarians and their lemmings perfectly with this quote: “The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that…one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day… 1/

submitted 3 days ago • 26 comments

This is how Kaganovich talked about Stalin.

submitted 2 days ago • 704 comments

The purpose is to spread disease and weaken the US population so they can be more easily controlled. It's why Kennedy was appointed.

submitted 2 days ago • 80 comments

There's two sides to this monstrous coin: 1) His fake study will blame vaccines, producing all the damage which follows from that. 2) The fake study will be used as an excuse to stop genuine autism research. E.g., no grants for anyone who doesn't cheer the fake study and repeat the propaganda.

submitted 2 days ago • 42 comments

Trump trying to take over a private university is truly an authoritarian measure.

submitted 2 days ago • 60 comments

"No one, apparently, is willing to prevent a single man from destroying the world economy, wrecking financial markets, forcing this country and other countries into recession if that’s what he feels like doing when he gets up tomorrow morning" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 2 days ago • 241 comments

What we are seeing is a purge—of the administrative state, of the universities, of expertise—that is consistent with events like the Cultural Revolution in China in the 1960s and ’70s, or the dismantling of the tsarist civil service after the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917.

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

As a reminder neither of these masters of the universe foresaw the problems with Trump or the tariffs. Dimon, supposedly the reasonable one, said back in January that tariffs were a national security priority and people should "get over it."

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

This is the budget resolution that Republicans have voted for. Another reminder that we have socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for the rest.

submitted 2 days ago • 114 comments

Cheers to the ICE social media staffer who just created an excellent Plaintiff's Exhibit A for all the people detained or removed for their "ideas."

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

"This is what arbitrary, absolute power looks like. And this is why the men who wrote the Constitution never wanted anyone to have it" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 3 days ago • 124 comments

The ideal of masculinity: destroying things other people built, whining about it, blaming someone else.

submitted 3 days ago • 69 comments

White House “Coal Miner" Is Actually a Supervisor for a Company That Recently Laid Off 165 Zachary Erdeljac wore a red MAGA hard hat, safety gear and praised Trump's tariffs meidasnews.com/news/white-h...

submitted 3 days ago • 158 comments

Probably people with paranormal powers good at reading the mind of Trump and members of his inner circle. Or maybe just a lot of lucky people. I’m sure nobody leaked the announcement to anyone. That would be illegal.

submitted 3 days ago • 192 comments

Sure was a lucky break for those billionaires to be at the White House today when the tariffs were reversed. Good day in the market for them.

submitted 3 days ago • 598 comments

Per NYTimes, this is what caused Trump to flinch, because the clowns running America apparently didn't think it was possible that irrationally destroying U.S. trade and triggering an equity meltdown might also cause problems with the Treasury bond market. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

The President of the United States of America posted this 15 minutes before the announcement of the tariff pause. This would be a straightforwardly criminal message, were the rule of law currently operational in the usual way, for those with insider knowledge of major market shifting policy news

submitted 3 days ago • 78 comments

Unless Congress impeaches and convicts Trump, he's going to use the full power of the United States to extort both companies and entire countries at will

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments